Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 26, Issue 1 , Pages 24-32 , February 2010

Multicultural family members’ experiences with nurses and the intensive care context: A hermeneutic study

  • Sevald Høye

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Hedmark University College, Kirkeveien 47, N-2418 Elverum, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +47 62430202; fax: +47 62430300.
    • ,
  • Elisabeth Severinsson

      Affiliations

    • The Centre for Women's, Family & Children's Health, Faculty of Health Science, Vestfold University College, Box 2243, N-3103 Tønberg, Norway

,Accepted 21 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2009.10.003

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